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| The Bureau conducts
pure and applied research across the spectrum of deformation processes
that affect sedimentary basins during their infilling and exhumation.
Research involving structural modeling integrated with seismic analysis
and mapping is carried out by two industry-funded consortia, the Applied
Geodynamics Laboratory and the Deep-Marine Depositional Margins Alliance,
and by research groups carrying out basin analysis. Research topics
include salt tectonics and shale tectonics on passive, active, and
strike-slip continental margins, especially in West Africa, Trinidad,
and the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, another industry-supported group,
the Fracture Research and Application Consortium, uses geomechanical
and structural-diagenetic models to predict fracture architecture
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| Current
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| Current
Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL)
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Salt
Canopy Emplacement and Deformation in Northern Gulf of Mexico |
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Contractional
Salt Tectonics in Lower Congo Basin, Deepwater Gabon |
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Modeling
of Minibasin Growth, Inflating Diapir Overhangs, Diapir Pinch-Off
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Strike-Slip
Salt Tectonics, Aquitaine Basin, France |
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Salt
Tectonics Affected by Basement Faults in Rhone Fan, Mediterranean
Sea |
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| Digital
Atlas of Salt Tectonics [Details] |
| Linking
the Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast: Geologic Framework and Play Definition
Research in the Laguna Madre-Tuxpan Area [Description] |
| Geological
Framework and Exploration Plays of the Miocene of the Burgos Basin,
Northern Mexico [Description] |
| Fracture
Research and Application Consortium [Link] |
| Deep-Marine
Depositional Margins Industrial Alliance [Link] |
| Click
Here for Completed AGL Studies |
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